Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19176524 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19176524 From that news: > ... But the company failed to protect

Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19176524 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19176524 From that news: > ... But the company failed to protect that database with a password, Victor Gevers, a Dutch security researcher with the GDI Foundation, discovered Wednesday. The database contained more than 2.5 million records on people, including their ID card number, their address, birthday, and locations where SenseNets' facial recognition has spotted them. > From the last 24 hours alone, there were more than 6.8 million locations logged, Gevers said. Anyone would be able to look at these records and track a person's movements based on SenseNets' real-time facial recognition. .... > Logged locations include police stations, hotels, tourism spots, parks, internet cafes and mosques, Gevers said. The researcher found that there were 1,039 unique devices tracking people across China. > One camera was logged monitoring the Uygur population in Xinjiang, a Muslim minority group that the Chinese government has been accused of targeting with human rights abuses.